Preparation of carbon nanotube bioconjugates for biomedical applications

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1372-1382

  Liu, Zhuang ^a,b   Tabakman, Scott M ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBON NANOTUBE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; DOXORUBICIN; GLYCINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRASTUZUMAB;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; NANOMEDICINE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOLUBILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 70349105583     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.146     Document Type: Article

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